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by anikom15 1326 days ago
While it is Adobe’s fault for implementing really poorly, there has to be some blame on creators making works using the Pantone palette without really understanding what it’s for and the fact that it is licensed, presenting risk that it won’t necessarily be available in the future.

A lot of people used the colors as just a nice useful palette. In hindsight that was never a good idea.
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atoav 1326 days ago
Are you sure about that? Most people I know who used Pantone colors were using them because their print product used one of those as a (special) spot color. You cannot print metallic copper on just any CMYK printer no matter how much you fiddle with the numbers. When you want a color to look as close as possible to a certain thing using a spot color (Pantone or otherwise) is the way to go.
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anikom15 1326 days ago
You just answered it yourself. Most people you know, what about the other people? What do they use it for? Not it’s intended use, whatever it is, which is part of my point (the other part is understanding the risk of vendor lock-in).
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atoav 1324 days ago
The other people don't use it at all. They use the color selector or the default swatches.

I know no person who uses pantone seatches and does not know about spot colors. And my environment are self thought people not professional graphic designers.

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